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(San Francisco, CA) — When filmmaker Shantha Bloemen found herself stationed in a remote village in Zambia as a worker with an international aid organization, she had to adjust to living in a different culture.
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She learned to cook "mealie meal,” the local staple, and carry water on her head from the river—over a mile from her home. But one thing struck her as oddly familiar: almost everyone in the village wore secondhand clothing from the West—from the village elder decked out in a Chanel knockoff jacket to women in AC/DC T-shirts to children sporting Adidas sneakers.
Bloemen began to imagine stories about the people who used to wear the clothing, wondering if the original owners had any idea that the castoffs they had g